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Japan becomes test ground for real tobacco e-cigarette

Edit Topix 30 Mar 2016
A customer is reflected on a table as a kit of Philip Morris' 'iQOS' smokeless tobacco e-cigarette is seen on it at an iQOS store in Tokyo, Japan, March 3, 2016. A customer tries a Philip Morris' 'iQOS' smokeless tobacco e-cigarette at an iQOS store in Tokyo, Japan, March 3, 2016 ... ....

Widows back tobacco battle

Edit The Telegraph India 30 Mar 2016
Five women who lost their husbands to tobacco-linked cancers have joined a chorus of voices urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to implement its promise to expand pictorial warnings to cover 85 per cent of tobacco packets from April 1 ... ....

North Dakota tobacco measure petition OK'd for circulation

Edit The Washington Times 30 Mar 2016
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved for circulation a petition to put on the ballot a measure that seeks to increase the state's tobacco tax. Jaeger on Tuesday said the measure's backers must gather about 13,500 qualified signatures by July 11 to put ... ....

Here’s how Big Tobacco targets mentally ill people

Edit Raw Story 30 Mar 2016
Talk about crazy. Even after the tobacco industry was cornered into revealing in 2007 that it had targeted mentally ill people for decades with fake science and free cigarettes, the puffing continued apace.   This article was originally published by The Influence, a news site that covers the fu... ....

Rajasthan widows urge PM to ban tobacco goods

Edit The Times of India 30 Mar 2016
To build pressure for having 85% pictorial warning on tobacco products and to ban tobacco products, a group of widows of tobacco victims from Rajasthan shot a missive to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ... "My husband died from mouth cancer due to his habit of eating tobacco ... tobacco-eating habits....

Key Assam parties hailed for making tobacco control an issue

Edit The Times of India 30 Mar 2016
The Congress party manifesto was quoted as stating that they will amend the existing laws for more effective control of sale and use of cigarette, bidis, smokeless tobacco products and other intoxicating substances. The BJP, in its manifesto, too has promised to ban use of cigarette and tobacco products in public places of Assam, while its poll ally ......

High Taxes Developing Underground Tobacco Market

Edit Scoop 29 Mar 2016
The Taxpayers’ Union is saddened but not surprised that New Zealanders are turning to the underground and unregulated homegrown tobacco market in response to the Government’s continued hikes in taxes on smokers ... ....

Tobacco Floors Tighten Security

Edit All Africa 29 Mar 2016
[The Herald] THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board and auction companies will this marketing season restrict the number of people entering auction floors to curb illegal activities by middlemen. This follows complaints by farmers that middlemen, popularly known as Class B buyers, were wreaking havoc and ripping off farmers of their crop and money ... Other middlemen offered low prices for ... ....

Smoke without fire with real tobacco e-cigarette

Edit Gulf News 29 Mar 2016
Japan is becoming a key testing ground for new real tobacco e-smokes as the demand soars ... ....

American Tobacco Greenway (City of Durham, NC)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
(Source. City of Durham, NC) American Tobacco Trail - Durham Section. This trail is a 10-foot wide, paved, off-road trail which follows the old CSX railroad. The trail is heavily used by walkers, joggers, cyclists, roller-bladers and folks pushing baby carriages ... Length ... Herndon Park....

IMA bats for 85% pictorial warnings on tobacco packs

Edit The Times of India 29 Mar 2016
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), India's largest representative voluntary association of doctors of modern medicine with over 2.6 lakh members, has urged union health minister J P Nadda to implement 85% pictorial warnings on both sides of tobacco packages from April 1 ... Tobacco is one of the risk factors for oral cancer ... Tobacco is devastating ......

Timely implement tobacco warning display norm: IMA to Centre

Edit The Times of India 29 Mar 2016
New Delhi, Mar 29 () The Indian Medical Association has urged the Centre to ensure timely implementation of the 85 per cent pictorial health warnings display on both sides of tobacco packages from April 1 ... With 275 million adult users, India is the second largest consumer of tobacco products globally. Doctors and medical professionals witness the debilitating and terminal effects of tobacco use on a daily basis....

Widows of tobacco victims write to PM Narendra Modi for 85% pictorial warning on products

Edit DNA India 29 Mar 2016
"How many more widows will this country make because of tobacco? they wrote. Widows of tobacco victims, including a former minister's wife, have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking implementation of a doctors' recommendation for 85% pictorial warning on tobacco products ... "What has been lost (death of husband) is lost, but we should check tobacco consumption among youngsters and minors," Pednekar said....
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